poltroonery

Example Sentences

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My prudence appeared to me the merest poltroonery, my remark about 'begging' the most finicking absurdity, my failure to accept Ted's offer the most reckless and offensive stupidity.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

Then the old soldier, half in despair at this poltroonery, proposed another plan.

From Historic Tales, Vol. 8 (of 15) The Romance of Reality by Morris, Charles

To hold aloof from them would have been poltroonery.

From Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography by Russell, George William Erskine

He would have added words, but dreaded getting words back that might rake up old scores, as when they last met at Hollymead, exposing his poltroonery.

From No Quarter! by Reid, Mayne

You believed rather the tales you heard of our poltroonery, and impotence of body and mind.

From The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers by Weems, Mason Locke